Chapter 278: A Just Sneak Attack; Blitzing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect
The higher-ups of the Three Elemental Academies felt their heads buzzing after hearing these words, completely stunned.
Good, good, good!
Terrifying, truly terrifying!
After all this time, it turned out they weren't just joining an ordinary Soul Master Sect, but participating in the grand ambition of unifying the continent?
Since such a Heaven-Defying Opportunity was laid before them, they would offer their loyalty without reservation no matter what!
Sitting at the edge of the conference table, Bai He's eyes also flickered slightly.
He was well aware that because of his blood relation to Tang Hao, he had always been unable to enter the true core decision-making level of the Tang Sect.
However, this old man didn't care at all anymore.
So what if he couldn't enter the core circle?
He had a gifted Granddaughter!
As long as his precious Granddaughter Bai Chenxiang grew up steadily within the Tang Sect and enjoyed the resources the Tang Sect tilted toward her with all its might, she would inevitably be part of the Tang Sect's next generation of core leadership!
As her grandfather, what reason did he have not to offer his loyalty?
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The Tang Sect's high-level secret meeting began quickly and ended just as efficiently.
Following Jiang Li's command, the Disciples of the various halls belonging to the Tang Sect, including the teachers and students of the newly merged Three Elemental Academies, all obediently restricted their range of activity.
Everyone strictly followed a death order: never approach the direction of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's compound by even half a step.
Even if the Elders under Jiang Li hadn't explicitly given the rank-and-file a specific reason, the people below understood a simple truth: they just needed to offer their absolute loyalty and follow orders; the Grand Elder would never harm them.
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Soon, with the Tang Sect's strange move of suddenly shrinking its defensive lines, an oppressive atmosphere quickly shrouded the entire Heaven Dou City.
The sharp-scented factions within the city seemed to smell the unusual scent of an impending storm.
As the only remaining pillar of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Bone Douluo Gu Rong also keenly sensed this suffocating calm.
Thinking that they were all Soul Master forces within the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire after all, Gu Rong planned to swallow his pride and personally visit the Tang Sect to sound out Jiang Li.
Finding out exactly what was happening would allow the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to prepare and take precautions in advance.
However, to Gu Rong's complete surprise, despite being a prestigious Rank 95 Super Douluo visiting in person, he couldn't even get through the Tang Sect's front gate and was directly and rudely rebuffed by Yang Wudi!
"Damn it! That Tang Sect brat actually dares to deny this old man Face like this!"
On the way back to the Sect, Gu Rong was so furious his lungs felt like they were about to burst.
If this were in the past, when Sect Master Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo Chen Xin were still around, he would have made the Tang Sect pay a heavy price for such a humiliation no matter what!
While he couldn't beat Jiang Li's group of monsters in a direct fight, with his Martial Soul's bizarre spatial traversal ability, it would be easy for him to secretly snatch a few isolated Tang Sect Core Disciples for a harsh retaliation.
But now...
Circumstances were stronger than people; the foundation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was no longer what it used to be.
Gu Rong was now the Sect's last supporting pillar. If he acted impulsively for the sake of Face and accidentally perished here, then the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's vast estate and Legacy would truly be completely severed.
Thinking of this, Gu Rong was very angry, but he only stayed angry for a moment before forcibly swallowing that fire.
He looked back toward the Tang Sect's towering gates with eyes cold and full of wariness, then turned and slunk back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's compound.
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Time passed slowly in the suffocating oppression.
Finally, on a pitch-black night where one couldn't see their own hand, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect suffered the most severe blow from Spirit Hall.
Led personally by Fire Phoenix Douluo, an iron torrent composed of countless Cardinals and elite Soul Masters used the cover of night to launch a long-premeditated just sneak attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's headquarters!
Although Fire Phoenix Douluo didn't rank high in the Elder Palace and wasn't a Super Douluo.
The current Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, aside from the Super Douluo Gu Rong, no longer had any decent experts to hold the fort.
Even more fatal was that Gu Rong's Martial Soul focused on defense and spatial abilities; he simply didn't possess the large-scale destructive power that Chen Xin had.
And the strategy of dispersing to avoid risk that Ning Fengzhi had proposed earlier now became a death warrant.
The already few high-level combatants of the Soul Saint and Soul Douluo levels within the Sect were forcibly split into several portions scattered across different locations.
Lacking the large-scale group buffs on the battlefield from Ning Fengzhi, a Soul Saint level Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda auxiliary, the remaining Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Disciples who lacked self-preservation abilities were simply slaughtered like vegetables before Spirit Hall's ravenous Soul Master legion.
The once prosperous and number one auxiliary Sect in the world no longer existed. Looking around, all that remained were ruins and the desperate screams of the Sect's Disciples.
This Hell-like scene made Gu Rong's eyes turn bloodshot, his heart twisting with pain.
"Where are the reinforcements from the Tang Sect and the Royal Family?! Why haven't they come yet?!"
In mid-air, after gritting his teeth and forcing back another round of Fire Phoenix Douluo's violent bombardment, Gu Rong panted heavily and roared at a wounded Disciple below who had just rushed back from Heaven Dou City to deliver news.
"Grand... Grand Elder!" The Disciple was covered in blood and cried out in despair, "Word came from the Royal Family saying this is a private grudge between Sects, and it's inconvenient for the Empire to intervene!"
"As for... as for the Tang Sect..."
"Speak!!" Gu Rong's eyes looked ready to burst.
"The Tang Sect people... as soon as the Tang Sect guards saw your Subordinate wearing the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's uniform, they didn't even let me finish speaking before throwing me off the steps like trash!"
Hearing this, Gu Rong felt a surge of Qi and blood in his chest, his vision suddenly went black, and he nearly fell from the air.
He could understand the Tang Sect kicking them while they were down; after all, Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin had indeed done the dirty deed of publicly backstabbing the Tang Sect in front of the The Pope's Palace, wanting a share of the spoils.
But did that damn fellow Jiang Li really not understand the simple truth that if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold?!
What made him feel even more chilled and furious was that damn New Emperor, Xue Qinghe!
Ning Fengzhi had devoted all his effort to assisting him for so many years; Xue Qinghe was Ning Fengzhi's rightful Personal Disciple!
Now that his mentor's Sect was facing total destruction, he, the New Emperor of the Empire, actually dared to say such cold-blooded nonsense about it being inconvenient to intervene?!
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